Tinker Tailor Cognac Tonic

This is a cocktail recipe for those home cooks who are almost as novice as the frozen raspberry-loving Juli Weiner. (She’s fearless, though, we’ll give her that.) It goes: Mix two to three parts tonic water with one part Cognac. Serve over ice in a snifter with a slice of lemon.

Seriously. That’s all the text you’ll see when you click on the recipe below. So you might as well skip that part and get to stirring.

PS. If your end product looks anything like the FREAKING BEAUTIFUL photograph above by Sarah Flotard, you can remove “novice” from your title. But we want to see your pictures to prove it.